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Gen Ogolla plane crash probe starts as Kenya Airforce, DCI officials land in site

Chief of Defence Forces, General Francis Omondi Ogolla

The late Chief of Defence Forces, General Francis Omondi Ogolla.

Photo credit: File

What you need to know:

  • The investigators arrived at the scene of the Thursday evening chopper crash at Sindar, Kaben in Marakwet East at 10:40 am in a military helicopter and began analysing the debris of the ill-fated plane.
  • The silent Sindar area along the border of West Pokot and Elgeyo Marakwet commonly known as Land of Peace, bringing together members of the warring Pokot and Marakwet communities was put under military surveillance. 

A Kenya Airforce air accident investigations team as well as detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have landed at the site where Chief of Defense Forces Francis Ogolla and nine other officers perished after a crash.

On Friday, detectives from Kenya Defense Forces commenced investigations into the cause of the plane crash that killed General Ogolla and nine others as Kenyans continued to speculate on the cause of the mishap that shook the country.